By John Dike, Osogbo Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has commiserated with the people of Ora Igbomina following recent banditry attacks in the community, assuring residents that a military-backed rescue and protection operation has been underway for the past three days. He gave the assurance after an emergency State Security Council meeting held on Wednesday […]
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By Steve Otaloro The recent approval by Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) of three major privately financed infrastructure projects valued at approximately $4.29 billion marks a defining moment in the nation’s economic re-engineering drive. The approved projects the Bakassi Deep Seaport in Cross River State, the Ondo Deep Seaport, and the 460-megawatt Katsina-Ala Hydropower Plant […]
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By Lasisi Olagunju General Sani Abacha was a great teacher. He pioneered the doctrine of consensus candidacy in Nigeria. He founded a country of five political parties and when it was time for the parties to pick their candidates for the presidency, all the five reached a consensus that the man fit for the job […]
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Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa How Governance, Reform, Party Cohesion Are Converging into One Expanding Front By Steve Otaloro The quarterly All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders’ meeting held on Friday 12 December at the Dome provided a comprehensive platform for reflection, accountability, and strategic alignment between party leadership and grassroots stakeholders in Ondo State. Convened […]
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When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka stepped out of a high-profile hotel in Lagos last week, he was greeted by an outlandish sight. Lined up like a presidential guard were no fewer than 15 heavily-armed police officers and other security agents, complete with rifles, bulletproof vests, and the unmistakable swagger of state agents protecting an untouchable […]
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By Steve Otaloro Wande Ajayi, PDP publicity secretary’s recent commentary, an extravagant blend of speculation, embellished analogy, and fundamentally flawed assumptions, deserves an immediate and rigorous correction. His attempt to dress fiction in the robes of political analysis does not merely mislead; it betrays a shallow comprehension of governance, institutional continuity, and policy execution in […]
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By Steve Otaloro Across the vast and wounded continent of Africa, the word “coup d’état” is not merely an entry in history books; it is a recurring nightmare, a blood-stained refrain that has echoed from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean for six decades. Since Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah was toppled in 1966 while on a […]
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By Olusegun Adeniyi The National Security Strategy of the United States 2025, representing President Donald Trump’s view of the world and his administration’s foreign policy direction was released last week. Erik Solheim, a Norwegian diplomat who served as Minister for International Development and also Environment in his country as well as Under Secretary General of […]
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By Steve Otaloro It was none other than the illustrious Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the immortal Zik of Africa, who, in the fevered constitutional caucuses of the 1950s, rose in vehement opposition to Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s sagacious proposal to entrench a secession clause in the embryonic republic’s founding charter. Azikiwe contended that such a provision would […]
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By Steve Otaloro President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent diplomatic manoeuvre, culminating in France’s public declaration of solidarity with Nigeria amid intensifying security challenges, represents one of the most consequential geopolitical realignments in West Africa in recent years. It is a moment that signals a recalibration of Nigeria’s foreign policy posture—away from its historically one-sided generosity […]
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